HighTech Lab. Japan Inc. (株式会社ハイテックラボジャパン) was a pioneering company in the field of computer graphics production and worked on such projects as NHK TV programs and the iconic animated film Akira. It was established in December 1986 by Takeshi Yoshizaki (吉崎武) of ASCII Laboratories, a part of ASCII Corporation dedicated to researching human-computer interface design. [1]

The company focused on video game production in the early 1990s, then closed in March 1997. Its last game was Deep Sea Adventure for the PlayStation; the team behind that title, with the help of publisher Takara, started developer Barnhouse Effect that same month.